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<blockquote data-quote="beentheredonethat" data-source="post: 1121843" data-attributes="member: 4886"><p>I don't know the hub you live in, but the local hub somewhat near me runs a Sun-Thu schedule. They also switched from a Mon-Fri to this new schedule. They did it so that they could improve the transit days (To their local delivery area) from other origins. From a long distance away, trains are cheaper then driver teams. When UPS commits to a transit time, it's a committment no matter what day of the week the customer ships. On some days, it may require driver teams to get to the destination hub in time, a Sunday sort means the trains can be more easily be used for Monday's which substantially reduces cost. As to moving work from one hub to another, just to share the pain. I haven't seen that done. Should it? Maybe. However, switching like this would be a logistic nightmare just to spread the pain, which is why it isn't done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beentheredonethat, post: 1121843, member: 4886"] I don't know the hub you live in, but the local hub somewhat near me runs a Sun-Thu schedule. They also switched from a Mon-Fri to this new schedule. They did it so that they could improve the transit days (To their local delivery area) from other origins. From a long distance away, trains are cheaper then driver teams. When UPS commits to a transit time, it's a committment no matter what day of the week the customer ships. On some days, it may require driver teams to get to the destination hub in time, a Sunday sort means the trains can be more easily be used for Monday's which substantially reduces cost. As to moving work from one hub to another, just to share the pain. I haven't seen that done. Should it? Maybe. However, switching like this would be a logistic nightmare just to spread the pain, which is why it isn't done. [/QUOTE]
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